My Two Favorite Things...Abbey and Berkley!!!

 I figured it was time to update my "ME" page on EBAY seeing that I have evolved from a Newbie to a Power Seller!  I started selling on EBAY by listing a Watch that I have had for several years and much to my surprise...selling was quite easy!  This event led to my insatiable desire to seek out GREAT finds and list them on EBAY!  Well, I hit every every Yard Sale to Barn Sale, read every Classified Add, started to network with other yard salers and proceeded to list everything under the sun...and I mean everything!!!  I am sure that everyone goes through this same selling FRENZY when they start with EBAY...In Fact, most never get out of the crazed fever of searching and listing.  But, for me, I went back to my roots of metalorganic chemistry and fell in love with Jewelry.  This might strike some of you as a strange niche to deal in, but I came to realize that there were/are so many different types of Jewelry items made of all sorts of cool plastics, glass, gems, rhinestones and yes, METALS!  In fact, I had bought my first lot of jewelry at a yard sale and went through it looking for only gold items.  I found 1 little piece of 10k gold and threw the rest away...about an hour later, I was bored and got the disposed jewelry lot back out and looked through it and discovered that some had markings or signatures on the back?!?!?!  "What's this" I said to myself, something more to research?!?!?! Interesting indeed...

Long story short, some of the names on this supposed trash jewelry were Lisner, Corocraft, Crown Trifari, Sarah Cov and KJL (Kenneth Jay Lane...took me a month or so to find this out and boy am I glad I did!)!!!  I listed these first few items, they had some bites from ebuyers but moved slow.  Since then, I began to research and buy bigger and better items ranging from the Victorian/Edwardian to Vintage Era and have increased sales and inventory to a considerable amount!  I now have an EBAY store, ZCMST'S VINTAGE COLLECTIONS, and deal with higher-end jewelry and tons of Gold Pieces and just love it!  I recently made Power Seller and have met so many good people through transactions I have had with them.  I have made friends all over the world...People who are just as excited as I am about finding yet again that one great treasure!  And remember, this all started with one little Watch that I had owned for years.... 

FYI: I would have to say that most asked question by all of my customers is what ZCMST stands for???  Well, its quite simple actually.  You see, I went to school many, many years and eventually received a Ph.D. in Bioinorganic Chemistry.  I spent the next four years working with nothing but platinum and trying to discover the next miracle cure for cancer.  Now I work for a living reviewing the chemistry of what others are claiming to be the next miracle drug.  Basically, I work forty hours a week and just needed something to do on the weekends that would add fun and excitement to my life.  And yes, it is riding around going from yard sale to barn sale looking for that one hidden treasure! 

Oh, if you haven't figured it out...ZCMST is short The Chemist and ENTROPY? Well, its a term all chemists use...Look it up!